TOKYO – DECEMBER 10: Comany’s sign board is displayed at Sony Corporation’s headquarters on December 10, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan. Sony announced yesterday to slash 8,000 jobs and 8,000 temporary and contract workers following the recent global downturn, to cut cost by USD 1.1 billion a year. (Photo by Koichi Kamoshida/Getty Images)
Credit: Koichi Kamoshida
Sony is reportedly looking to a launch a Windows Phone device as soon as mid-2014, according to two sources cited by The Information. This would be a big move for Sony, which competes on many fronts with Microsoft and mainly releases mobile devices powered by Google’s Android.
Unsurprisingly, nothing has been set in stone yet. The same sources say a Microsoft-Sony deal has not been finalized, and could easily fall apart over licensing fees, ad revenue, or the features that such a device would ship with. So far, Sony has drawn up designs for a prototype phone and has considered using the Vaio brand currently exclusive to its line of personal computers that run Microsoft’s Windows.
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